TV veteran to run Penn’s radio station

Roger LaMay

Roger LaMay

will replace Vinnie Curren as the next general manager of WXPN. A former general mana-ger of Fox’s WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, LaMay has two decades of television management experience. While at Fox, LaMay served WXPN as a policy board member and supported a number of the public radio station’s initiatives, including Singer/Songwriter Weekend. Curren left Penn’s public radio station to become senior vice president for radio at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Washington, D.C.

Diane Gaertner has been named director of University Laboratory Animal Resources. Currently director of the Institute for Animal Studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Gaertner is a nationally recognized leader in the field of laboratory animal medicine. She now presides over the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine as president. In her new position, Gaertner will direct laboratory animal services and help develop an expanded academic veterinary training program.

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“As we know from the research, the performance of a large firm is due primarily to things outside the control of the top executive. … We call that luck. Executives freely admit this—when they encounter bad luck.”

—J. Scott Armstrong, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, on how executives can influence a company’s value. Limited research on the topic has mostly found that broader market forces often have a bigger impact on a company’s success than an executive’s actions. (The New York Times, Feb. 7, 2015)